Out and About in Homer

Homer Travel Blog

Today was
the day to search out what appeared to be the elusive eagle.We started out by driving the East End Road
hoping to find the state park.Well, too
bad you can’t drive there, so back we came.A geocache lead us to Skyline
Drive which gave us a wonderful view from the top
of the hill overlooking Homer and the Spit.

From there
we returned to the spit hoping to find some eagles.They were there, just not in the great
numbers of the winter.We discovered
that they liked to sit on the light towers around the deep water boat
harbor.I guess this gives them a real
“bird’s eye view”.We also found that
they like to sit on the beach at low tide.We usually only found one at a time but found at least one every time we
looked.The eagles are still here, just
scattered.

The
weather was nice and as we looked to the west there, 72 miles away was MountAugustine.This is a very active volcano which erupted
in 2005 and 2006.To this day it is
still emitting steam from its vent.

We took a
little time to look in the shops and then found several otters swimming behind
the shops on the ocean side.Later one
was very close to shore doing summersaults and washing his face.

After
dinner we returned to the spit to look for eagles and to check out the
sunset.